Honorable Mention / 2022 / Portraiture / Self-Portrait

• Photographer
  Anniek Snoeijs, Netherlands

"It's Not My Fault" is a project about sexually transgressive behaviour. For this project I made portraits of people who are dealing / or had to deal with sexually transgressive behaviour.

The second part of this project contains images of my own process. I was sexually abused when I was 16. I was ashamed and I kept this as a secret for 7 years. Afraid what people would think about me and I didn't talk to anyone about it. Through photography I know how to process my own trauma.

For this self-portrait I went back to the place were my traumatic experience happend, 7 years ago.